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The History of Work

AI & the Future of Technology2013.01.16
The History of Work
Richard Donkin: The History of Work, translated by Xie Zhongwei, Electronic Industry Press, 2011. Generally speaking, a title like “The History of XX” is always interesting, especially when that “XX” looks all the more dull and ordinary; its history is often all the more interesting. For history tells us that anything we have long taken for granted and found unremarkable has its own origins and development; by tracing history we can let our imagination unfold: is it necessary? Is it inevitable? In what other forms might it still take place? Recently, I happened upon this The History of Work, and felt it was quite good. Along with Technical Elements, Electronic…
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2013年1月16日
Media and Morality

Philosophy & Thought2012.08.29
Media and Morality
In the previous article, I said I wanted to make a transition from one thing to another; in fact, I only wrote half of it. I had originally planned to move from the Olympics to media, but the Olympics piece ended up being about the right length, and the latter half was a bigger theme. So let me pick it up again now. At the time I mentioned that, although on the one hand we were paying attention to the reeducation-through-labor case and satirizing politics, on the other hand we were also thrilled by the Olympics’ gold-medal contest. That is not a contradiction, much less something shameful. Recently I reposted…
philosophy technology media value
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2012年8月29日
[Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong

Life & Notes2008.07.06
[Repost] Ya Li’s Remarks on Fan Meizhong
鸭梨’s writing always feels pleasing to the eye~ Public opinion on the Fan Meizhong affair had two peaks. The first naturally came right after the incident; as far as I could tell, One When the incident first broke, I was also very confused: should this matter, and this person, simply be written off with one blow? I do not like Fan’s articles, especially that famous declaration, which began with his saying that he “pursues freedom and justice” and ended with his becoming a target of public reproach for not saving his mother, as well as the deep loathing he displayed in earlier writings toward his own country…
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2008年7月6日
The 400th blog post~

Site Matters2007.04.12
The 400th blog post~
From the 200th blog post to this 400th one (the counter on the right side of the page is malfunctioning; besides, I also counted a few private posts), it has been exactly one year. At that time the blog’s word count had already passed 500,000; now it probably ought to be breaking one million. But at present I can no longer export a backup file, and I wonder whether this is a common problem or simply because my blog has become too large. This year has been, quite precisely, the worst one in my life in spiritual terms, and I have been sinking deeper and deeper. Only recently…
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2007年4月12日
First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.19
First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE
First Assignment for the Bioethics Special Topic: On the Train Running People Over and DDE DDE（Doctrine of Double Effect, the doctrine of double effect）： When some actions inevitably bring about double consequences, namely one intended good result and another foreseeable bad result, the doctrine of double effect holds that such actions are good (that is, necessary under natural law) if and only if all of the following conditions are met at the same time: 1） The action must not be immoral 2） The bad consequence must not be the means to the good consequence 3） The intention of the action must be directed only toward the good consequence, although the accompanying…
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2007年3月19日
Better to Be a Hypocrite Than a Real Villain

Culture & Public Commentary2006.08.23
Better to Be a Hypocrite Than a Real Villain
The title is certainly not inverted. Those familiar with my consistent position, or those who have heard Yangzi’s history of Chinese philosophy, will not find this surprising. The phrase “Rather be a true villain than a hypocritical gentleman” is quite fashionable now; many people even quote it with the formulas “as the saying goes” and “there is a common saying.” What does it mean? The fact that this phrase has been enshrined as “common sense” reveals certain features of current fashion. “Hypocritical gentleman” is of course a pejorative term. If by hypocritical gentleman one means someone whose lips are honeyed but whose heart is a dagger, who acts one way…
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2006年8月23日
Human Nature and Human Essence—A Discussion in Everyday Language

Culture & Public Commentary2006.04.03
Human Nature and Human Essence—A Discussion in Everyday Language
What is meant by “essence” is “the fundamental nature of a thing.” The essence of human beings refers to the fundamental reason by which a human being becomes human, qualifies as human, and is distinguished from other things. What is meant by “human nature” is, in the most general dictionary sense: “the normal feelings and reason possessed by human beings.” Clearly, for example, the criterion of biological classification—for instance, saying that a human being is an animal “with two legs and no feathers”—is not a matter of philosophical concern. What, then, can the “essence of human beings” discussed in a philosophical sense include, besides feelings and reason? It is clear…
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2006年4月3日
Finding Life’s Truths in Scientific Laws (I)

History of Science & Scholarship2006.03.13
Finding Life’s Truths in Scientific Laws (I)
Gleaning Life Lessons from Scientific Laws Why I Started Writing This I had planned long ago to write a long essay on “science and value,” but when exactly I will finish such an essay is anyone’s guess. In any case, it will take at least until I am in graduate school, because this topic deserves at least a book, and it also requires a great deal of accumulated work. Philosophy is not merely epistemology, and even less merely linguistic analysis; philosophy should at least include three parts: ontology, epistemology, and axiology. So-called “philosophy of science” should of course not be limited to “what is science,” and even less should it…
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2006年3月13日
A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”

Culture & Public Commentary2006.02.01
A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”
Many scholars, when mentioning the term “money worship,” often simply treat it as a “label” — especially from the standpoint of humanistic scholars, “money worship” is obviously a bad thing. This is somewhat like “idealism,” “agnosticism,” and so on: for example, when a thought has an “idealistic” tendency, it is tantamount to saying that it has a “bad” tendency, and in the case of an idealist philosopher’s agnostic thought, this sort of criticism is almost as good as saying nothing at all and can simply be ignored. Likewise, criticisms of money worship, relativism, and nihilism must avoid falling into this kind of childishness. In certain groups where rejection of money…
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2006年2月1日
The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.07
The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity
Adam and Eve, because they secretly ate of the “fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” had their eyes opened; they knew that they were naked, so they covered themselves with fig leaves. When God discovered that they had come to know shame, He knew that they had eaten the fruit of wisdom and discerned good and evil, and therefore punished them by casting them down into the mortal world to become human beings…… This is the Bible’s account of the origin of humanity. It is very uninteresting to talk about the conflict between the Bible and evolution; let us instead look at the profoundly thought-provoking…
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2005年12月7日